Celebrities And Drugs

drew was a baby lush

If you've ever seen a biography on actress Drew Barrymore or read her story, told in a book entitled Little Girl Lost , you would know that she became addicted to alcohol at the tender age of 9... you heard right, 9 years old.

After gaining fame and fortune for her stint in the cult classic E.T. , Drew began living the life of grown-ups and started drinking regularly, and soon after that, she began smoking pot. When pot began to have a minimized effect on little Drew, she began sniffing cocaine at a mere 12 years old.

After trying to kill herself at 14, Drew took her mom to court in order to get full emancipation from her. Since then, Drew has remained clean despite her sometimes-questionable antics. Does anyone recall an episode of the Late Show With David Letterman , in which Drew jumped on the host's desk and flashed her precious boobies?

foolish farrah

While we're on the topic of Letterman, does anyone remember back in 1998 when Farrah Fawcett appeared on his show to promote her Playboy spread but instead displayed strange and unusual behavior? She seemed quite incoherent and it seemed as though she was noticing things that actually weren't there.

In mid-sentence, she would stop talking to Letterman and look around her in amazement... the crowd was laughing, Letterman was confused and Farrah had no idea what was happening.

Her reps deny that she was on any drugs or alcohol and that she behaved the way she did on purpose, but anyone who saw the show agrees with me — she was so stoned . Farrah learned her lesson quickly and reappeared on the show sometime later, completely attentive and aware of her surroundings.

livin la vida toka

Even Ricky Martin, the man who had it all, delved deep into the rotten world of pot and cocaine in 1994. While he was working on the soap opera General Hospital , Martin began hanging around with the wrong crowd (I didn't realize that there was a right crowd) and took a nosedive into the world of drugs.

After admitting his past problems with marijuana and cocaine on a Barbara Walters special (in which he wouldn't admit his sexual preference), Ricky stated that he learnt a valuable lesson and knows better now. He is clean as a whistle and gay as a jaybird.

and they all fall down

There are plenty of celebrities who have openly admitted that they were into drugs and alcohol to the point of no return. Among them are Andy Dick, who starred in the hilarious sitcom NewsRadio ; Robert Downey Jr., who has been convicted numerous times for getting high; and Whitney Houston, who although hasn't admitted it publicly, got busted at a Hawaiian airport with lots of pot.

Perhaps celebs will clean up their act and remain sober for longer than ten minutes. I guess when you have such a ridiculous amount of money in your account, the norm does not seem so enticing as does, say, the abnorm . It's quite likely that if drugs were legalized, no one would be taking them.